The Michoud Assembly Facility is an 832-acre industrial complex for the manufacture and structural assembly of aerospace vehicles and components. It is owned by NASA and located in New Orleans East, a
Top to bottom, left to right: Aerial view of MAF in January 2020, the factory floor, Artemis I liquid oxygen tank in the South Vertical Assembly Building, and the entrance to the lobby and administration offices.
First stages of Saturn V rockets being assembled at the Michoud factory in the 1960s
A section of eastern New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) at right (green) is not flooded, while the surrounding neighborhoods (dark greenish brown) are extensively flooded.
Welding of the SLS liquid oxygen tank in the South Vertical Assembly Building
The Marshall Space Flight Center, located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first m
Michoud Assembly Facility
…It is owned by NASA and located in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Organizationally it is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is currently a multi-tenant complex to allow commercial and government contractors, as well as government agencies, to use the site. MAF is one…
Aerial view of MSFC in 2016. Note that the buildings in the center of the image and on the right (4202 and 4200) have been demolished.
Ceremony of transfer from Army to NASA July 1, 1960
President Eisenhower unveils a bust of George C. Marshall at the space center with help from Marshall's widow, Katherine Tupper Marshall.
Lunar Roving Vehicle test article on test track